Published 2006-09-27
Keywords
- Protection of the Sea (Powers of Intervention) Act 1981 (Cth),
- Protection of the Sea (Powers of Intervention) Amendment Act 2006 (Cth),
- Australian Maritime Safety Authority (AMSA),
- MERCOM,
- emergency response
- marine pollution,
- marine casualty,
- marine safety,
- emergency towing,
- salvage,
- vessels of opportunity,
- marine environment,
- International Convention Relating to Intervention on the High Seas in Cases of Oil Pollution Casualties 1969,
- Protocol Relating to Intervention on the High Seas in Cases of Pollution by Substances other than Oil 1973,
- pollution damage prevention,
- exclusive economic zone,
- places of refuge,
- National Place of Refuge Risk Assessment Guidelines,
- risk management,
- high seas,
- threat of pollution,
- criminal sanctions,
- 1989 Salvage Convention,
- distress situation ...More
Abstract
Chaffey provides the following introduction to this paper, which is reproduced here:
This paper outlines recent amendments to the Protection of the Sea (Powers of Intervention) Act 1981 (Powers of Intervention Act) passed by Parliament in 2006. The amendments took effect the day after the Protection of the Sea (Powers of Intervention) Amendment Act 2006 (the Amendment Act) (No 44 of 2006) received Royal Assent (that is, they took effect on 23 May 2006). These amendments were made to clarify the powers of intervention in conjunction with the creation within the Australian Maritime Safety Authority (AMSA) of my position, the Maritime Emergency Response Commander (MERCOM). MERCOM has national responsibility for management of interventions in maritime casualties that threaten significant pollution.
This paper also contains Chaffey's slides, and the amendments to the Protection of the Sea (Powers of Intervention) Act 1981 (Cth).